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26.03.2024: Berlinale Meets Fußball: Successful Premiere Combines Film and Football for the UEFA EURO 2024

As part of the cultural programme for the EURO 2024, the 74th Berlin International Film Festival was able to create a unique event that put the spotlight on young football talent from all over Germany: Berlinale Meets Fußball [...]

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15.03.2024: Film Screening & Discussion: “Bring them home now” - Youth by Tom Shoval

To create space for discussions about the fight for the release of the hostages in Gaza, the Krokodil cinema Berlin is screening Tom Shoval's Youth (Panorama 2013) in cooperation with the Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg [...]

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26.02.2024: Berlinale Files Criminal Charges Over the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Posts / Criticism of Statements Made by Artists at the Berlinale Award Ceremony

On Sunday, February 25, the Instagram channel of the Berlinale Panorama section was briefly hacked. / After the Berlinale Award Ceremony, the German media and various politicians criticised the statements made by award winners on the Middle East war [...]

Awards

24.02.2024: The Awards of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival

All awards of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Awards, Panorama

24.02.2024: The Panorama Audience Awards

The audience has voted: The 26th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film goes to Memorias de un cuerpo que arde (Memories of a Burning Body) by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor wins in the category Panorama Dokumente [...]

Awards, Generation

24.02.2024: The Prizes at Generation Kplus

The members of the Youth Jury Generation Kplus and the International Jury have awarded the following prizes [...]

Awards, Generation

23.02.2024: The Prizes at Generation 14plus

The members of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus and the International Jury have awarded the following prizes [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

22.02.2024: Big Crowds and High-Turnover Deals at the First Film Fair of the Year – The European Film Market 2024 Sets New Records

A record number of over 12,000 trade visitors from 143 countries means the European Film Market can draw a remarkable balance after a week of market activities [...]

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21.02.2024: Successful First Part of the 74th Berlinale

The first half of the festival was marked by glamorous, but also political appearances on the Red Carpet and packed cinemas [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

19.02.2024: New Feature Film Projects on Their Way – Prizes at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2024

On Sunday, three cash prizes and one in-kind prize were awarded to selected feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 17 to 21) [...]

Competition

16.02.2024: Statement by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha

Because their government has imposed a travel ban on them, the two Iranian directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha cannot present their film - Keyke mahboobe man from the Competition - in Berlin. At the Press Conference, the film's leading actor, Lily Farhadpour, read out a personal statement by Moghaddam and Sanaeeha [...]

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14.02.2024: Opening of the Berlinale 2024

On February 15, the start of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival will be celebrated in the Berlinale Palast. The event will be broadcast on ZDF/3sat from 7.20 pm and streamed live on the Berlinale website [...]

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13.02.2024: The Official Partners of the 74th Berlinale

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival receives support from its Principal Partners Armani beauty, Uber and ZDF; its Co-Partners Campari, Mastercard, Potsdamer Platz and rbb media; and approximately 30 other national and international businesses [...]

Generation

08.02.2024: Fiercely Supportive Realms of Experience

In this interview, Generation section head Sebastian Markt and section manager Melika Gothe discuss what cinema can accomplish as a social space, their understanding of age-appropriate interaction with young audiences and why they find coming of age more interesting when it deviates from the literal concept [...]

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08.02.2024: Berlinale Opening: Disinvitation of AfD Politicians

Over the past few days, there has been an intense discussion in the cultural sector, in the press and on social media as well as within the Berlinale team about the invitations of AfD politicians, a right-wing extremist party, to the Opening of the Berlinale [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

08.02.2024: Busting the Canon

Section head Rainer Rother and Annika Haupts, member of the selection committee and programme coordinator, on the high percentage of female directors in the 2024 Retrospective "An Alternate Cinema – From the Deutsche Kinemathek Archives" and why the films are particularly worthwhile for a young audience [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

08.02.2024: Empathetic, Diverse and with Solidarity: the 2024 Forum

Between generations, between genres, between people – this year, the Forum once again invites you to journey to and beyond the borders of what is familiar in film. For the first time headed by Barbara Wurm, the section combines a diversity of genres with analytical cinema and provides a platform for those voices that are drowned out, derided or suppressed elsewhere. At times, the films tell their stories slowly, at other times they are action-packed; sometimes they sing and sometimes they remain silent [...]

Berlinale Talents

07.02.2024: Film (Language) as a Favourite Language

Berlinale Talents is inviting everyone to talk. In this interview, programme manager Florian Weghorn and project manager Nikola Joetze present the 2024 programme and discuss the importance of good communication and mutual understanding for successful film collaborations [...]

Berlinale Shorts

07.02.2024: About Animals, People and Togetherness

Contrasting cinematic forms and subject matters enter into dialogue with one another in the Berlinale Shorts programme. Familiar things are examined more closely, unfamiliar ones approached in an open way, feelings are expressed and doubts permitted. This interview with section head Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck is about visions of communal life, sincerity in storytelling and the role of art in difficult times [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

07.02.2024: Distant Connections

In the interview section heads Ala Younis and Ulrich Ziemons talk about ghosts as multipurpose metaphors, 16mm as a resurgent material in experimental film making and what may have surprised them in this year’s selection [...]

Panorama

06.02.2024: Bridges to the Possible

The 2024 Panorama once again has its fingers on the pulse of the zeitgeist. In this interview, section head Michael Stütz talks about how the films consistently succeed in building bridges across the fault lines of our times into a possible future, about exceptional life stories and the enormous formal diversity in the programme [...]

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06.02.2024: Berlinale 2024: Diversity and Inclusion

The Berlinale is committed to diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and is constantly working to further develop inclusive events [...]

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06.02.2024: Berlinale Goes Kiez: The Programme

From February 17 to 23, Berlinale Goes Kiez will be rolling out the Red Carpet in a new Berlin neighbourhood on a daily basis, bringing festival atmosphere and international guests to arthouse cinemas in Berlin and surrounding areas [...]

Encounters

05.02.2024: Underneath our Reality

Ghosts, Sappho, treasure hunts - in its fifth edition the Encounters section seeks to explore and question the limits of genre and cinematic truths. Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and Head of Programming Mark Peranson discuss the 15 selected films and cinema’s quest to make the invisible visible [...]

Competition, Berlinale Special

02.02.2024: A Focus on the Unusual

In 2024, the Competition and Berlinale Special offer programmes that are impressive in their formal diversity as well as presenting a broad range of themes. In this interview, Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and Head of Programming Mark Peranson discuss the significance of emotions in the selection of both sections, the strong presence of mother and child characters and the play with genre elements [...]

Berlinale Shorts

01.02.2024: Berlinale Shorts 2024 – International Short Film Jury

From the 20 nominated films, the jury will be choosing the winner of the Golden Bear for Best Short Film, the winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) and the Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards [...]

Additional Information, Competition

01.02.2024: Berlinale Issues Call for Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Expression for Competition Directors Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha

The festival is shocked and dismayed to learn that Moghaddam and Sanaeeha could be prevented from traveling to the festival to present their film and meet their audience in Berlin [...]

Berlinale Talents

01.02.2024: More Than Words Can Say: Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Scorsese, Ira Sachs, Tsai Ming-liang, Mati Diop, Abderrahmane Sissako, Peaches and Many More Guests at Berlinale Talents

This year’s theme of "Common Tongues - Speaking Out in the Language of Cinema" sets an example for diversity in filmmaking, tolerance, open exchange and freedom in art [...]

Awards

01.02.2024: Jury GWFF Best First Feature Award

In total, 16 directorial feature film debuts from the sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum and Generation are nominated [...]

Generation

01.02.2024: Generation Competition Programmes Complete

Two further world premieres complete the Generation programme [...]

Encounters

01.02.2024: The Encounters Jury

This year’s Encounters programme features 15 films. A three-member jury chooses the winners for Best Film, Best Director and the Special Jury Award: Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), Denis Côté (Canada) and Tizza Covi (Italy) [...]

Generation

01.02.2024: International Jury and Children's and Youth Jury of Generation

The juries of Generation stand for the collective experience of cinema and subsequent discussion of the films [...]

Awards

01.02.2024: Jury Berlinale Documentary Award – Funded by rbb

In 2024, 20 documentary forms from the sections Competition, Berlinale Special, Encounters, Panorama, Forum and Generation are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award [...]

Competition, Awards

01.02.2024: Berlinale 2024: International Jury

Actor, director, producer and writer Lupita Nyong’o will head the jury [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

31.01.2024: EFM Industry Sessions 2024

A Growth Mindset Towards (Human & Machine) Learning, Skills and Equity Put Centre Stage [...]

Panorama

31.01.2024: Berlinale Spotlight: Panorama – Guest at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin

Shortly before the start of the 74th Berlinale, the next Berlinale Spotlight will take place on Tuesday, 13 February 2024, La Sirène by Sepideh Farsi will be screened [...]

World Cinema Fund

29.01.2024: World Cinema Fund with Twelve Films in the Berlinale Programme / WCF Day 2024 / German Federal Cultural Foundation Extends and Increases Funding

An impressive number of twelve very diverse WCF-funded films with strong narratives and artistic identities have been selected for the Berlinale 2024 programme [...]

Berlinale Special

25.01.2024: Three Films Have Been Added to the Berlinale Special Programme

Two mid-length films and one feature film complete the programme [...]

Artistic Director's Blog

25.01.2024: Edgar Reitz, Heimat, Cinema

Carlo Chatrian on Edgar Reitz' epic Heimat and his latest work Filmstunde_23, which will celebrate its world premiere at the 74th Berlinale as part of the Berlinale Camera presentation to Reitz [...]

Encounters

22.01.2024: The Programme of Encounters

The programme comprises 15 films, all of which are world premieres. There are two first features plus one debut of a documentary form [...]